From Lola’s Juke to First Friday
Every year in our Best Of issue, we have a category for best jukebox. Let’s just say that from 2011 on, the...
Outreach, Niosi, Hotels
Some of Fort Worth’s finest musos have been confirmed for a show benefitting the Fort Worth Music Outreach, an organization that...
Looking Back
Here are some of the best and worst things, I think, that happened this year, starting with the worst: 1.) The closing of the...
SXFW
Every year around this time, I launch into a spleen-o-gram about SXSW and how the annual Austin music festival is supposed to be about...
Downtown! Things’ll Be Great When You’re …
Last week, on the day that Wreck Room owner Brian Forella signed the lease on a new spot, the downtown space formerly known as...
Soul’d Out and More
There’s not enough soul in this scene. There aren’t enough women. There’s not enough pop. There aren’t enough progressive singer-songwriters. But there’s really not enough...
They Travel the Spaceways
They had me at “Arkestra.”
Fort Worth’s Rage Out Arkestra will always tickle me for being named after one of my favorite artists of all time....
Hall of Fame Class 2019
We’ve nominated the bands, published the ballot, released an all-local compilation, threw a ginormous music festival spanning eight venues with 40 combined bands, and...
Deep Ellum on Air, Rage
The Dallas Observer recently published a story about some dude trying to build a web portal that would simulcast every concert in Deep Ellum....
The Decade’s Best
I'm not from Texas, and I didn't get here as fast as I could, but I like it here well enough. My first Lone...
